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Common Core is Losing Ground Throughout the nation, state legislators are debating whether to pass, reject, or even repeal Common Core State Standards. Legislation to repeal Common Core is being considered in Arizona, Kansas, Montana, and South Dakota. Four states – Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia – never adopted the standards ...

States Face Budget Realities Governors across the nation delivered their State of the State addresses in January, and many Republican governors promised tax cuts and budget restructuring. A number of states are facing budget shortfalls and lower-than-expected revenues, forcing governors to find creative ways to balance their state ...

If war is politics by other means, in the debate pitting climate change against energy development, one side is arming, as Russia uses climate agreements to pressure the West to remove economic sanctions against it. Organizers of last September’s United Nations climate summit in New York tried to cajole world leaders into making ...

Climate Change Weekly #159 [ Subscribe ] David Letterman’s nightly top-ten list is usually pretty funny. By contrast, a top-ten list assembled this week by The Heartland Institute’s James Taylor is not funny at all. Taylor details ten of the most ludicrous but persistent lies climate alarmists tell. Taylor’s column was written ...

The Medicaid Expansion Debate Continues States across the country continue to debate whether to expand their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In recent months, Republican governors in several states have considered new proposals to expand Medicaid programs. Idaho Gov. Butch Otter (R) has twice assembled a ...

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that Area 1002 on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has an estimated 4 billion barrels of recoverable oil that could be produced at a rate of about one million barrels of oil per day, making it one of the largest oil-producing fields in the U.S., yet on ...

States Consider Hiking Gas Taxes State governments, including those in Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Tennesse, are considering increasing motor fuel taxes, a move proponents say is needed to improve transportation infrastructure such as roads and bridges. At the national level, a letter signed by more than ...

The large swaths of federal lands in western states are at the center of a debate over the future of tens of millions of acres between the eastern rim of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Under the “Transfer of Public Lands Act,” signed into law in 2012 by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R), the federal government had ...

State Lawmakers Continue to Fight Obamacare In state capitols around the nation, lawmakers are still debating legislation addressing Obamacare. According to a recent study from the Center for Public Integrity, more than 700 Obamacare-related bills were debated throughout the nation last year. The bills vary from state to state ...

State Lawmakers Continue to Fight Obamacare In state capitols around the nation, lawmakers are still debating legislation addressing Obamacare. According to a recent study from the Center for Public Integrity, more than 700 Obamacare-related bills were debated throughout the nation last year. The bills vary from state to state ...

Significant Declines in Wind Energy Investment in renewable energy greatly relies on government regulations, tax benefits, and various subsidies. Throughout the nation, wind energy is losing steam. Even Warren Buffett admitted wind energy was a bad investment. In an article by Senior Fellow James Taylor of The Heartland Institute ...

Climate Change Weekly #154
Almost before consumers began to reap the benefits of lower gasoline prices after a decade of pain at the pump, climate humbugs and their political lackeys started hinting now would be a good time for carbon or gasoline taxes.
My response: There is never a good time for bad public policy ...

Heartland’s Policy Priorities for 2015 With the start of the new year most state lawmakers are heading back to their state capitols to tackle many important issues. Heartland believes the following will be some of the top issues to watch for in numerous states this year. Fighting EPA’s CO2 Regulations The Environmental Protection ...

The Alaska State Legislature opposed expanding Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, with many arguing it is an expensive endeavor that would not provide better or more affordable health care for Alaskans. Although no official proposals to expand Medicaid have been offered, Gov. Bill Walker (I) made Medicaid ...

How To Use Rewards to Help Children Learn “By most accounts, the American education system is not working well. Children appear to be learning less in school today than they did a generation ago.” -Bruce Maclaury, president, Brookings Institution, foreword to Politics, Markets, and America’s Schools , 1990 Since the time of that ...

States Continue to Reconsider Common Core Standards As more details about Common Core have come to light, a growing number of teachers, parents, and policy experts are finding many problems with the standards. As a result, more than a dozen states have considered withdrawing from Common Core, while some have dropped their involvement ...

Happy Thanksgiving from The Heartland Institute “Before free markets were established, the colonists had nothing for which to be thankful. … But after free markets were established, the resulting abundance was so dramatic that the annual Thanksgiving celebrations became common throughout the colonies, and in 1863, Thanksgiving ...

Kaiser Health News offers a pretty good roundup of stories each day on health care, and anybody who wants to stay on top of things would be well advised to subscribe to their daily e-mail (it's free). KHN also routinely partners with other news outlets to produce news stories, and these are often informative too. One recent ...

Affordable Care Act Forces Louisiana Public Schools to Cut Hours A provision in the Affordable Care Act has caused the public school system in Louisiana to rely more heavily on substitute teachers. The ACA requires employers to offer health insurance coverage to workers employed 30 hours or more per week. A non-compliant school ...

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